Series of Articles on Dairying in Nova Scotia [1908]Halifax, N.S, King's Printer 1909 Card covers Very Good tall 8vo. [ii], 151 pages, plus 12 photograph plates. Cover title continues: Being a Reprint from the Annual Report of the Secretary for Agriculture Province of Nova Scotia. For the year 1908. Creasing to covers, small loss to heel of spine paney. Sound binding. 31 articles.
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162.50 CDN

Bell, E. WestonThe Scottish Deerhound with Notes on Its Origin and CharacteristicsEdinburgh David Douglas 1892 Cloth Very Good 4to. 138 pages, plus the 16 engraved plates. 20 page illustrated David Douglas October 1892 catalogue of Books on Sport & Natural History at rear. Green cloth considerably and unevenly tanned. Top edge gilded. Binding sound and hinges secure. Rubbed at head and foot of spine. Armorial bookplate to front endpaper. Some in-text illustration as well as the 16 plates called for, tissue guarded. A tidy example, without inscriptions.
Price:
390.00 CDN

Berridge, W.S.All About Reptiles (Including Frogs and Toads)New York Robert M. McBride & Company 1935 First US Edition Cloth Good 8vo. 270, [1] pages. Printed in England. Presumably Berridge's All About Reptiles and Batrachians with the clade explicated for American consumption. Same number of pages as well as the "hundred and thirty-four illustrations from photographs by the author". No stated date of publication; worldcat has it as 1935 along with the Harrap UK. This US issue does not have a pictorial cover. Former owner's name stamped to front endpaper; light soiling there and to facing pastedown as well as top edge; nasty looking splotch to rear pastedown mirroed on facing endpaper perhaps from library pocket but no other library evidence or remnants. Else a clean interior with sound binding.
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32.50 CDN

Dobson, AustinThomas Bewick and His Pupils. With ninety-five illustrationsLondon Chatto and Windus 1884 First Edition half leather Very Good tall 12 mo. xviii, 232 pages. 7.5 x 6 inches. Finely bound in contemporary brown morocco over feathered paper, with five raised bands, label and decoration to spine. Miniscule bookseller's stamp to top left verso front endpaper: Harrison 59 Pall Mall. Feathered endpapers, with armorial bookplate front pastedown [Henry Ralph Lambton]. Small ownership signature at top left of first blank endpaper dated 1985. First few and final few leaves show considerable foxing; frontispiece tissue guard also foxed. Otherwise the interior is clean and free of marks. All edges feathered, with top edge dulled. No ads bound in at rear. Binding and hinges are fully secure. A handsome volume.
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292.50 CDN

Dodds, E. KingCanadian Turf Recollections and Other SketchesToronto, ON. Self published 1909 First Edition Cloth Very Good 8vo. 304 pages, plus plates. Horse racing anecdotes numerous and humorous illustrated with photographic plates most of which are portraits. Paper clip rust to top of second and third leaves. Binding and hinges sound, no inscriptions. Moderate fraying to head and foot of spine.
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65.00 CDN

Greene, Anne BosworthGreylightNew York & London The Century Co. 1924 Cloth Poor Good small 8vo. C. M. Relyea 222 pages. Third printing [stated on jacket] of the first edition. Jacket spine tanned and chipped at head. Verso of jacket reinforced along edges with brown paper tape. Jacket is complete and stable, thogh splitting along upper hinge. E. Schoeller signed engraved bookplate 1903 of Olga E. Schoeller to front endpaper and, facing that, a pasted-in photo of a small girl with ponies. Despite the relatively well preserved jacket and handsome front cover, the interior is rough: frontispiece is secured fore and aft to gutter with brown paper tape; binding is entirely split between pages 136 and 137; the gathering of pages 137-152 is detached; pages 153 to end are securely bound together though detached as a whole. Foxing throughout. All pages are present, including the four illustrated plates and blank endpapers; there is a picture of windy sand-dunes affixed to verso of rear endpaper. Loosely inserted in the volume are four newspaper clipping dealing with Shetland ponies from unidentified German papers. We are fortunate to have a local conservator and we would be happy to organize restoration of this volume at cost.
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97.50 CDN